Definitions of Discrimination

This page was last revised June 20, 2002. (AAD Home Page)

GENERAL APPROACHES TO DISCRIMINATION

Derrick Bell, Selection from And We Are Not Saved (pp. 45-50)
Barbara Bergmann on AA policy enforcement, from In Defense of Affirmative Action
Carl Cohen, Selection from Naked Racial Preference: The Case Against Affirmative Action (pp. 96-97)
Employment Discrimination Law Material (Legal Information Institute; Cornell Law School)
Stanley Fish - Selection from "Reverse Racisim: Or How the Pot Got to Call the Kettle Black" (Atlantic Monthly)
Andrew Kull - Selection from The Color-Blind Constitution (pp. 202-3)
U.S. Employment Discrimination Law (Legal Information Institute; Cornell Law School)
Cornel West, Selection fromRace Matters
Patricia Williams, Selection from "Metro Broadcasting"

EVOLVING UNDERSTANDINGS OF DISCRIMINATION

David Chang, "Discriminatory Impact, Affirmative Action, and Innocent Victims: Judicial Conservatism or Conservative Judges?" (Columbia Law Review, May 1991)
Carl Cohen, Selection from Naked Racial Preference: The Case Against Affirmative Action (pp. 93-95)
History of Affirmative Action Page (AAD Project)
Nancy Hoffman, "Shifting Gears: How to Get Results with Affirmative Action" (Change, March/April 1993)
Andrew Kull, Selection from The Color-Blind Constitution (p. 182)
Andrew Kull, Selection from The Color-Blind Constitution (p. 213)
Michael Olivas, "The Attack on Affirmative Action" (Change, March/April 1993)
Michael Omi and Howard Winant, from Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1980s (1986/89)
Muriel Morisey Spence, "Affirmative Action at Mid-Life: A Proponent's Agenda for the '90s" (Change, March/April 1993)
Laws Applying to Affirmative Action in Educational Institutions (NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund)
Mary P. Rowe, "Fostering Diversity: Some Major Hurdles Remain" (Change, March/April 1993)
Catherine Stimpson, "Rethinking Affirmative Action" (Change, March/April 1993)

INSTITUTIONAL DISCRIMINATION

Anti-Discrimination Policy: Michigan State University
Derrick Bell, Selection from And We Are Not Saved (pp. 40-43)
Dinesh D'Souza, "Sins of Admission" (The New Republic, February 18, 1991)
"Institutionalized Racism" (National Review, September 12, 1994)
Audre Lorde, Selection from Sister, Outsider : Essays and Speeches
Roger Wilkins, "Racism Has Its Privileges" (The Nation, March 1995)
Thomas Yingling, Selection from "AIDS in America: Postmodern Governance, Identity, and Experience"

REVERSE DISCRIMINATION

Carl Cohen, Selection from The Naked Racial Preference: The Case Against Affirmative Action (p. 102)
Stanley Fish, Selection from "Reverse Racism: Or How the Pot Got to Call the Kettle Black"
National Coalition of Free Men

VICTIM AND PERPETRATOR

Barbara Bergmann, Selection from In Defense of Affirmative Action (pp. 147-48)
Reacting to Subtle Discrimination (discussion of gender discrimination; Ellen Spertus)
William Henry, Selection from In Defense of Elitism (p. 138)
"Racial insults don't prove emotional harm" (Mark Williams; Daily Reporter )

EVOLUTION OF GENDER DISCRIMINATION LAW

GLASS CEILING

ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

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